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Soccer: All square after Yerevan thriller

UEFA.com
March 28 2009

All square after Yerevan thriller

Gevorg Ghazaryan headed home four minutes from time as Armenia picked
up their first FIFA World Cup qualifying Group 5 point at the fifth
attempt.

Entertaining encounter
With the visitors defending in numbers, an entertaining game looked
unlikely in Yerevan, but there was to be plenty of goalmouth
action. Arman Karamyan tested Sergei Pareiko early on, but the Estonia
keeper fielded his shot from 16 metres, while Joel Lindpere hit the
post at the other end after a sharp counterattack before Henrikh
Mkhitaryan beat Pareiko with the aid of a deflection in the 31st
minute.

Wednesday rematch
The keeper denied Mkhitaryan again not long afterwards before
Konstantin Vassiljev equalised, striking past Roman Berezovski from
Martin Vunk’s ball, and there was time for Aleksandr Dmitrijev to pass
up another chance for Estonia before the break. Armenia recovered
after half-time, but misses from Levon Pachayan and Karamyan preceded
substitute Sergei Zenjov putting Estonia ahead on 69 minutes as he
went one-on-one with Berezovski. Ghazaryan, however, had the last
word, with the two sides meeting again in Tallinn on Wednesday.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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